Pizza Express Colchester – Restaurant Review

Last week I was invited to visit Pizza Express in my local town and try out the new Summer menu. Pizza is something I love but I don’t have alot as I am gluten intolerant. However Pizza Express now offer all of their classic pizza’s on a gluten free base so I was excited to try one and see how the taste and texture stacked up against a standard pizza.

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The Pizza Express in Colchester is always quite busy and this night was no exception and I love that the kitchen is open so you can have a good nosey at the chefs cooking. I’m not so much a fan of the music they played there though – kinda loud and some weird choices but I guess it all adds to the atmosphere of the bustling kitchen and restaurant.

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For starters we shared a garlic bread and some dough balls. You can’t go to Pizza Express without sampling the dough balls, they are so yummy. I only ate a couple as I was saving myself for my pizza but my husband was more than happy to wolf them down!!

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For main I had the Caprina rossa pizza which is Beetroot, goat’s cheese, red onion, garlic, tomato and mozzarella. Finished with Gran Moravia cheese, rocket and pesto, Served with a wedge of fresh lemon, and I had a Gluten free base. My other half had Il Padrino, a chicken pizza with roasted veg on a normal base.

My pizza was gorgeous. I could tell the base was gluten free as it had a very different texture to a normal base, but in a good way. It wasn’t dry and powdery like a lot of gluten free food can be. It was  very tasty and I would definitely have it again.

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For dessert I had a slice of cheesecake which although nice was too rich as there was no fruit coulis that night for some reason and you kinda need this to cut through such a rich baked cheesecake. But my husband loved his panna cotta and again wolfed it down no problem (Are we seeing a trend here???)

We were really well looked after by our waitress and this was without her knowing I was there for a review. Really nice staff in general and after three courses and two very very lovely glasses of  Pino we headed off home very happy.

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Thank you to Pizza Express for inviting us

You can see my outfit post of what I wore here